Agee Filmsproduces and distributes award-winning documentary
films on a wide range of subjects, including environmental history, American literature, American
history, social justice, religion, child development, and American culture.

Founded in 1974, Agee Films is named for novelist, screenwriter, journalist,
poet, and film writer, James Agee (1909-1955). The Founder and Director of Agee Films
is award-winning filmmaker Ross Spears.

As part of our film project The Truth about Trees, we are pleased to offer short films that go into more depth about the topics covered in the three parts of the film series. Click here to watch Tree TV.

We are proud to offer downloadable unedited versions of our interviews with the people who appear in our films (and even some who, for space reasons, didn't make the final cut).
Click here for more information.

The Truth About Trees is the first full-length
documentary series to explore the vital role of trees for all
life on Earth. The series dramatizes the profound
connection of natural history and human history.

Common Table, a feature length documentary film by Red Dirt Productions and the James Agee Film Project, traces the rich and complicated history of the American South through the foods of the Southern table. Common Table will follow the path of Southern foods from the shores of Africa and Europe to the New World where plants and culinary know-how meet the ingenuity of the South's first farmers, the Southeastern Indians.